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Split verdicts in Michael Jackson case

A jury considering dueling lawsuits by Michael Jackson and a one-time adviser rendered split verdicts on Friday -- awarding the pop star $200,000 and his former associate $900,000.

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Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

LOS ANGELES: A jury considering dueling lawsuits by Michael Jackson and a one-time adviser rendered split verdicts on Friday -- awarding the pop star $200,000 and his former associate $900,000.

The Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for nearly two days on the breach-of-contract lawsuit by former gay porn producer Marc Schaffel and Jackson's counter-suit before returning the verdicts.

Schaffel, who worked with Jackson on an abandoned charity single and two television specials, sued the 47-year-old entertainer for failing to pay him.

Jackson's counter-suit called Schaffel a ‘swindler’ who misappropriated hundreds of thousands of dollars of the singer's money.

Prosecutors named Schaffel an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in Jackson's sex abuse case and accused him of helping the entertainer intimidate his young accuser and the boy's family.

After a sensational four-month trial, a jury exonerated Jackson on all charges in June 2005.

Prosecutors asserted during Jackson's child molestation trial that the singer, who ruled the pop charts in the 1980s with such albums as Thriller and Bad, had fallen on hard times.

Since the trial Jackson has mostly lived in Bahrain.

Earlier this year California authorities ordered the man who once crowned himself King of Pop to shutter his Neverland Valley Ranch for failing to pay the staff and maintain proper insurance.

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